Review of Take This Waltz (2011) by A T — 03 Jan 2013

Take This Waltz is at times painful to watch. Half because the storyline is so drawn out, but also because the actors know they can do much better. Williams is drawing way too much out of the Zooey Deschanel quirky girl persona which really gets irritating at times.

Rogen, although playing closer to an actual character than self this time still is able to get laughs out of his performance. Silverman really isn't in the film and really doesn't contribute much to the ongoing triangle romance.

Kirby I guess is okay as the tempter, but I don't see how his performance really progressed the movie enough. All in all, Waltz is disappointing considering if Rogen and Williams didn't avoid the truth and just sat down, talked and just worked it out, the problem would be solved.

Instead, the film draws itself out to flip flop so much it really loses it's edge. Toronto never looked better I guess through Instagram filters and the scene at Centre Island is also fantastic by the cinematography work, but Waltz is a film that needs to survive on its characters which it doesn't live up to.